[Bored chemist]

Because it isn't someone else's money, and this thread isn't about cosmesis but functional addition. JImbee (reply #7) asked about state funding for functional add-ons.

Having never had a trial for any other country, I have the absolute right to play cricket for England, and I'm deeply distressed by no longer having the physical capacity to do so. I will be pleased to use some of your taxes to replace and enhance whatever needs to be done to my body to get me to the requisite condition - maybe as a fertile woman, while they are about it..

Alan; you know better than that.
Unless your desire to play cricket is such that the inability is likely to drive you to suicide, it's really not the same and you know it.